Hacker News: Schiphol

Can You Terraform Mars?

Schiphol — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:03:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-01978-8/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688997

Points: 4

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ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine

Schiphol — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:31:27 +0000

Article URL: https://willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-issue-17

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684900

Points: 2

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Matcha: Modern Authoring Tool for Certified Human Authorship

Schiphol — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:44:51 +0000

Article URL: https://matchawriter.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573919

Points: 3

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Dumbo Could Already Fly

Schiphol — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:14:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/dumbo-could-already-fly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249851

Points: 2

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Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving Drosophila

Schiphol — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:59:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.03.722293v1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020275

Points: 1

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New comment by Schiphol in "The longest Greek word"

Schiphol — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:11:27 +0000

Learning some Attic Greek is one of those priority two goals I keep trying and failing to accomplish. Any tips you can share?

Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking

Schiphol — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:26:02 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649050

Points: 1

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The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science

Schiphol — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:59:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498796

Points: 2

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New comment by Schiphol in "Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science"

Schiphol — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 11:20:27 +0000

I think this is just the nature of paid work, though. Academics are generally in love with their topic, and very much not in love with the kind of admin busywork that they have to spend much of their working hours doing.

Bob, Stephen and Marshall Are Leaving the Array Cast

Schiphol — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:44:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode118-changes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46032568

Points: 1

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New comment by Schiphol in "Project Euler"

Schiphol — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:47:04 +0000

I suppose I wonder how those users are coping with having the robots do all the stuff instead of them doing some of the stuff.

New comment by Schiphol in "Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)"

Schiphol — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 13:21:57 +0000

There's one of those still in operation at the University of Sheffield! Pretty stressful. https://sheffield.ac.uk/efm/paternoster

New comment by Schiphol in "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2014)"

Schiphol — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:34:58 +0000

Ah, nice, I'll try that. SICM in particular relies on numerical routines and things for scientific computing that this perhaps doesn't cover. We'll see. Thanks!